Archive for the ‘PHP’ Category

The top 20 PHP App Insecurity

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Ed Finkler, for the past couple of weeks, has been collecting data from the NIST NVD to get stats on PHP application vulnerabilities. In his blog,
he released the top 20 PHP security issues statistics.

The data covers only reported vulnerabilities, between April 1 2006 and April 1 2007.

Thanks for the nice work!

PHP “__toString” magic method: not so magic before 5.2.0

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

I was confident that using one of php5’s magic methods, __toString() would just work, but the fact is that the following code works in php version 5.2.1 but not in 5.1.6:

(more…)

The Practical PHP Programming book, now as a wiki

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

The original book has been online over two years, and in print as PHP in a Nutshell, but now all the content is available on this site as a wiki.

The contents of the wiki are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence (read it here), with one addition: by submitting content to this wiki you grant the author, Paul Hudson, the right to relicense your work under the GNU GPL 2.0 or later if he so chooses.